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News, Honors and Awards
Stacey Fuhrmann Dunn, a recent graduate from the departmental Honors Program,
has been named the First Place prize winner in the McClung Award competition.
The McClung Award is given for the most outstanding paper published in BIOS each
year. Stacey's paper is titled "Foraging and prey handling behaviors of
the generalist Thamnophis hammondii offered various prey types." BIOS
75(2):58-64, 2004. Congratulations to Stacey and her mentor, Dr. Stephen
Mullin.
Joyce Edwards retired as the departmental secretary following 22 years of
service.
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New Faculty: |
Karen Gaines |
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Specialty Area: |
Wildlife toxicology at the landscape level |
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What attracted you to EIU: |
EIU’s commitment to academic excellence
through both teaching and research was the decisive reason why I joined
the faculty. In addition, the diversity of expertise in the Biology
Department made it an ideal place for collaborative research. Most
importantly, I will be teaching courses that I enjoy to a diverse student
body. |
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Academic/Employment: |
Ph.D: University of South Carolina
University of South Dakota, Department of Biology (2003-2005)
University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (1995-2003) |
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Other Interests: |
I have a 13 month old son, so he takes up most
of my free time. Before he was born, I played a lot of soccer, backpacked
and hunted. |
Dr. Stephen Mullin was elected to the office of Publications Secretary
for the
Herpetologists'
League.
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New Faculty: |
James Novak |
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Specialty Area: |
Ecological Genetics; Genotoxicology;
Biostatistics |
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What attracted you to EIU: |
The quality of the university and the
department of biological sciences as well as the extensive faculty
expertise in organismal biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. |
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Academic/Employment: |
Assist. Professor, Biology Department, U. of
S. Dakota (2003 – 2005)
Co-director, Missouri River Institute (2004 – 2005) |
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Other Interests: |
My son, bicycling, audio/video, camping/hiking |
2005 COS
Achievement and Contribution Award recipients:
Teaching: James McGaughey.
Research/Creative Activities: Janice Coons, Zhiwei Liu, Scott Meiners,
Britto Nathan, Tom Nelson
Balanced: Paul Switzer, Ann Fritz, Eric Bollinger.
Research Grants and Awards
2005 CFR Awards
Eric Bollinger, Gary Bulla, Zhwei
Liu, Scott Meiners and Britto Nathan.
2005 Summer Research and Creative Activity Awards
Eric Bollinger, Zhiwei Liu, Marina Marjanovic,
Stephen Mullin, and Paul Switzer.
2005 Redden Grants
Thomas A. Nelson, Scott J. Meiners and Paul
Switzer.
Presentations
The Wildlife Society Twelfth Annual Conference (Sept. 2005) "The use of
stable isotopes to
differentiate wild and pen raised ring-necked pheasants
along the Missouri River Basin"
C.R. Caton, K.F. Gaines, C.S. Romanek, L.
Paddock.
The Wildlife Society Twelfth Annual Conference (Sept. 2005) "A spatially
explicit exposure model to
estimate contaminant exposure in wildlife" K.F.
Gaines, T.E. Chow, M.A. Wilson, and
Michael E. Hodgson.
The Wildlife Society Twelfth Annual Conference (Sept. 2005) "The influence
of landscape
heterogeneity on resource selection by amphibians and small
mammals in southeastern South
Dakota."A.J. Gregor, R.L. DeMots, K.F.
Gaines, J.M. Novak.
Publications
Chow, T.E.,
K.F. Gaines, M.E. Hodgson, and M.D. Wilson. 2005. Habitat and exposure
modelling for
ecological risk assessment: a case study for the
raccoon on the Savannah River Site.
Ecological Modelling. 189:151-167.
Collyer, M. C., J. M. Novak, and C. A. Stockwell. 2005.
Morphological divergence in recently established populations of White Sands
pupfish (Cyprinodon Tularosa). Copeia 2005:1-11.
Edgin, B., G.C. Tucker & J. E. Ebinger. 2005. Vegetation and
Flora of American Beech Woods Nature Preserve, Clark County, Illinois.
Sida Contributions to Botany 21: 1861-1878.
Gaines K.F.,
C.S. Boring, D.E. Porter. 2005. The development of a spatially explicit
model to
estimate radiocesium body burdens in raccoons (Procyon lotor)
for ecological risk assessment.
The Science of the Total Environment. 341:15-31.
Gaines K.F.,
D.E. Porter, T. Punshon, and I.L. Brisbin, Jr. 2005. A spatially explicit
model of the wild
hog for ecological risk assessment activities at the
Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site.
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 11:567-589.
Meiners, S.
J. and M. L. Cadenasso. 2005. The relationship between diversity
and exotic plants:
cause or consequence of invasion? Pp. 97-114
In Inderjit (ed.) Invasive plants: ecological and
gricultural
aspects. Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel)
Meiners, S.
J. 2005. Seed and seedling ecology of Acer saccharum and
Acer platanoides: a contrast
between native and exotic congeners. Northeastern Naturalist
12:23-32.
Nathan, B.P., R. Nisar*, J. Short*, S. Randall*, E. Grissom*, G.
Griffin*, P.V. Switzer and R.G. Struble. (2005). Delayed olfactory nerve
regeneration in ApoE-deficient mice. Brain Research 1041(1): 87-94.
Saeki*,Y., K.C. Kruse and
P.V. Switzer (2005). Male preference for large females in the
Japanese
beetle (Popillia
japonica) (Coleoptera:Scarabaeidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc.
78(1):13-19.
Saeki, Y.*, K.C. Kruse, and P.V. Switzer. (2005). Physiological
costs of mate guarding in the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newman).
Ethology 111: 863-877.
Saeki, Y.*, K.C. Kruse, and P.V. Switzer. (2005). The social
environment affects mate guarding behavior in Japanese beetles, Popillia
japonica. 6pp. Journal of Insect Science 5:18.
Switzer, P.V. (2005). Possible
settlement benefits related to site fidelity for the territorial
dragonfly, Perithemis tenera (Say) (Anisoptera: Libellulidae).
Odonatologica 34(4): 397-405.
Yurkonis, K.
A. and S. J. Meiners. In Press. Drought impacts and recovery are
driven by variation in
local species turnover.
Plant Ecology.
Yurkonis, K.
A., S. J. Meiners, and B. E. Wachholder. 2005. Invasion impacts
diversity through
altered community dynamics.
Journal of Ecology
93:1053-1061
* = student authors
Research Poster Presentations
Brelsfoard, C. L.,
Fritz, G. N. and
Rodriguez, R.
DNA-BASED
METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MALARIA MOSQUITOES: Species-diagnostic Polymerase Chain
Reaction Assay for The Identification of Anopheles Vectors of Human
Plasmodium spp. 2005
Carlson, J.M.,
Marjanovic,
M. and
Lawrence, B.A.
Potential
Roles of Urea and Phosphodiesters in Eggs of the Antarctic Naked Dragon Fish (Gymnodraco
acuticeps). 2005
Costa, C.J.,
Martin, K., Weeks, P. and Gatto, C.
Interactions
between bacterially expressed cytoplasmic domains of the Na, K-ATPase. 2005.
Ellis, J., Reidy, R, Abdalla, A. and
Bulla, G.A.
Tissue-specificity of apoptosis in hepatoma-derived cell lines. 2005.
Florey, J. and
Mullin, S.J.
A survey of
anuran breeding activity in Illinois, 1986-1989. 2005.
Klueh, S. and
Mullin, S.J.
Population
Ecology of the Jefferson salamander, Ambystoma jeffersonianum, in
Illinois. 2005
Marjanovic,
M.,
Lawrence, B.A., Wright, N.C., Costanzo, J.P. and Lee, Jr., R.E.
Possible Role
of Phosphodiesters in Cold Tolerance. 2005
McDonnell, A.L., Mounteer, A.M.,
Owen, H.R. and Todd
B.L.
A two year
analysis of the effects of stem cutting and glyphosate treatment of Lonicera
maackii, an exotic, invasive species, on stem re-growth and native species
richness. 2005
Newbury, R. and
Nelson, T.
Seasonal home
ranges, habitat use and fractal dimensions of raccoon movement pathways.
2005.
Oakley, H. and
Bulla, G.A.
Fixation
optimization of hepatoma cells for combined β-gal and GFP expression analysis.
2005
Paudel, R,
Fritz, G.N. and
Rodriguez, R.
The
distribution and ecology of larval malarial mosquitoes in Chapare Valley,
Bolivia. 2005.
Tulloss, E. M. and
Meiners, S. J.
Edge-mediated
succession and drought response in a plant community. 2005
Yurkonis, K.A. and
Meiners, S.J.
Community
response to variation in rainfall in a successional system. 2005
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